In theory, chemical-free sustainable agriculture not only has ecological benefits, but also social and economic benefits for rural communities. By removing farmers' expenses on chemical inputs, it provides them with greater autonomy and challenges the status quo, where corporati…
Explores the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India.
In 1649 a Code of Laws was issued in Moscow completing, at least in law, the process of enserfment of the Russian peasantry. This book illustrates this process with fifty-six documents of the twelfth to seventeenth centuries. They relate mainly to the central and northern area o…
There is a great deal of controversy and debate on land acquisition and transactions concerning the economic development of India, particularly the rural parts of the country. This book explicates, from a sociological perspective, the effect of increasing land transactions on so…
Hermeneutical retrieval -- Retrieving the classical theory of rent -- Ricardo or Marx? The reduction to labor -- Otherwise than capital? -- A phenomenology of land -- Givenness and ground -- The being of land -- Excess and gravity -- The economic turn -- Correlating land -- Dile…
"This book offers conceptual and empirical studies of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure, and land-based gender concerns. Topics include "Creating new understandings," "Exploring alternative approaches fo…
"This book offers conceptual and empirical studies of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure, and land-based gender concerns. Topics include "Creating new understandings," "Exploring alternative approaches fo…
"This book offers conceptual and empirical studies of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure, and land-based gender concerns. Topics include "Creating new understandings," "Exploring alternative approaches fo…
by Fernandes, Bernardo Mançano, Grau, Eros Roberto, Tourinho Neto, Fernando da Costa, Strozake, Juvelino José, Fonteles, Claudio, Passos, Cynthia Regina L., Cintra Júnior, Dyrceu Aguiar Dias, Maniglia, Elisabete, Comparato, Fábio Konder, Alfonsin, Jacques Távora, Garcia, José Carlos, Fachin, Luiz Edson, Fowler, Marcos Bittencourt, Laranjeira, Raymundo, Delmanto Junior, Roberto, Pereira, Rosalina Pinto da Costa Rodrigues, Cunha, Sérgio Sérvulo da, Figueiredo, Suzana Angélica Paim
Estuda a luta pela terra nos cinco séculos de história do Brasil, que toma novos contornos após a Constituição de 1988, considerando a propriedade direito fundamental quando ela cumpre a sua função social.
